Quality podcasting in social work

Schaffhauser, D. (2010) Producing a Podcast: Lessons from U Buffalo School of Social Work Campus Technology, 24 March

This is the first of two articles on the use of podcasting at the University of Buffalo to attract students into taking social work programs from the university. I particularly liked this article because it goes [...]

A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)

It’s now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC, and my motto has always been ‘Never look back.’ However, two things came together to bring me back to UBC last week with a ‘formal’ [...]

Research on games: Selene/CyGaMEs

From Natasha Boskic

Research that shows how playing a well-designed video game can enhance learning has been conducted by Dr. Debbie Denise Reese and her team at the Center for Educational Technologies® (CET) at Wheeling Jesuit University.

The CyGaMEs (Cyberlearning through Game-based, Metaphor Enhanced Learning Objects) project was funded by National Science Foundation in [...]

Just damned good teaching

Kolowich, S. (2009) Professors of the Year Inside Higher Education, November 19

This article has nothing to do with e-learning, but it does discuss effective teaching practice, especially in chemistry. This approach could be used in hybrid or even fully online learning.

Empowering education through technology in the k-12/school sector

My web site focuses primarily on post-secondary education, and because of the volume of articles in the k-12/school sector, I rarely post articles about this sector.

However, eSchool News provides a useful collection of articles each week through its Online Educational Resource Centre. There are often articles here that would also be of interest [...]